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Notebook with references and extracts by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. to McKenna’s unpublished history of Fr. Mathew’s temperance movement. The notes are arranged under various headings including:
His piety
His humility
His priestly character
His mode of life
Regarded as a saint
Working cures
Results of his work
His trials in his temperance work
Rules of his society
Manuscript, 41 pp.
• Note by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re the travels of Fr. Mathew and James McKenna, his principal secretary, from May 1844 to Nov. 1845. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Notes from McKenna’s 'The History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland'. Typescript, 28 pp.
• Notebook containing an index to and summary of James McKenna’s unpublished ‘History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland’. The notes contain references to speeches of Fr. Mathew on temperance and brief summaries of the content of McKenna’s text. Manuscript, 69 pp.

• Notes compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. on Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC from 1841-5. The notes include transcribed copies of letters from Daniel O’Connell to Fr. Mathew (26 Oct. 1844) and from Fr. Mathew to Mr. Buckingham (20 Oct. 1844). The principal source was probably James McKenna’s ‘History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland’. Manuscript, 16 pp.
• Extract from McKenna’s ‘History of the temperance reformation in Ireland, England and Scotland’ re Fr. Mathew’s temperance campaign in Liverpool and his attitude towards distillers. ‘I have no personal hostility to distillers or brewers or vendors of strong drink’. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Extracts from John Francis Maguire’s 'Father Mathew / A Biography' and ‘History of the Temperance Reformation by James McKenna, chief travelling secretary to the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew’ confirming that Fr. Mathew first arrived in Cork in about 1814. The extracts are by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Typescript, 1 p.

Notebook of Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. containing notes on the genealogy of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The volume includes a family tree showing the ancestry of Fr. Mathew. The notes are in a Dollard’s Scribbling Diary for 1926. With a transcript of a letter from Basil O’Connell to Fr. T.J. Walsh re the will of George Mathew of Thomastown (1760). The letter is dated 29 Aug. 1951

• Notes by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. re letters written by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to the Rev. Dr. Paul Cullen and the Rev. Dr. Tobias Kirby, Pontifical Irish College, Rome, from 1840-7. See the Correspondence of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC (Irish Capuchin Archives, CA FM-COR). Manuscript, 2 pp.
• A physical description of Fr. Mathew by the Very Rev. M.B. O’Shea, Archdeacon and Pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, Cork, in 1826 taken from John Francis Maguire’s biography of the Apostle of Temperance. Typescript, 1p.
• Copy cutting of an article from the 'Cork Examiner', 11 Oct. 1850, relating to the opening of Holy Trinity (Father Mathew Memorial) Church, Charlotte Quay, Cork. Copy cutting, 3 pp.
• Extracts from Asenath Nicholson, 'Ireland’s Welcome to the Stranger: Or An Excursion Through Ireland, in 1844 & 1845, for the Purpose of Personally Investigating the Condition of the Poor' (1847). The extracts were compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. and refer to Fr. Mathew’s role in famine relief. Manuscript and typescript, 5 pp.
• Extracts from Rev. Wallace Clare, 'A Young Irishman’s Diary, 1836-1847, Being Extracts from the Early Journal of John Keegan of Moate. Edited with Preface and Notes' (1928). Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. notes that Rev. Wallace Clare was a grandson of the diarist (John Keegan). The extracts refer to the life and temperance campaign of Fr. Mathew. Typescript, 4 pp.
• Extracts from D. Owen-Madden, 'Revelations of Ireland in the Past Generation' (Dublin: James McGlashan, 21 D’Olier Street, 1848). The extracts were compiled by Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. and refer to Fr. Mathew. Manuscript, 1 p.
• Extract from John J. O’Shea, 'The Two Kendrick’s' (Philadelphia, 1904). The extract (p. 255) refers to the arrival of Fr. Mathew in Philadelphia on 28 Nov. 1849. Typescript, 1 p.
• Photocopy of an extract titled ‘Apostle of Temperance / The Story of a Crusade’ from 'The Valley Near Slievenamon: A Kickham Anthology: the Poems, Memoirs, Diary, Letters, Essays, Addresses of Charles J. Kickham' (1942), pp 130-3. Copy print, 1 p.
• Copy letter of Fr. Theobald Mathew to J. McHugh re the ‘Washington Branch of the great Temperance Tree that now overshadows nearly the whole earth …’. 28 Mar. 1845. With an annotation by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. indicating that the letter was given to him by Fr. Vivan O’Connell OFM Cap. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Copy extract from a newspaper referring the generosity of Fr. Mathew during the famine. The extract reads ‘The money which was intended to finish the church [Holy Trinity, Cork] was doled out by him to the famine stricken’. An annotation reads ‘No name of paper, nor date given. Letter to the Editor, headed “The Father Mathew Memorial Church” in a News Gleanings book in the Archives’. [c.1889]. Typescript, 1 p.